Senior Healthcare Support Worker - AAU
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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Role summary
The Acute Admissions Unit (AAU) at Royal London Hospital is seeking a Senior Healthcare Support Worker. This role involves working in a 52-bedded unit, admitting patients directly from A&E and ambulatory care. You will assist qualified nurses in assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating high standards of patient care, working independently under supervision. The position requires excellent communication skills, compassion, and the ability to thrive in a busy acute setting.
Essential criteria
- Completion of Care Certificate or equivalent.
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills (English and Math's GCSEs or equivalent.)
- Evidence of ongoing personal development.
Desirable criteria
- Level 2 support worker Apprenticeship
- Demonstrable experience of working in a clinical healthcare setting.
- Experience of dealing with the public.
- Awareness of health and safety at work. e.g: manual handling skills, infection control measures.
- Ability to collect and exchange factual information and data to the multidisciplinary team and ensure data accuracy.
- Completion of Care Certificate or equivalent.
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills (English and Math's GCSEs or equivalent.)
- Evidence of ongoing personal development.
- Level 2 support worker Apprenticeship
- Demonstrable experience of working in a clinical healthcare setting.
- Experience of dealing with the public.
- Awareness of health and safety at work. e.g: manual handling skills, infection control measures.
- Ability to collect and exchange factual information and data to the multidisciplinary team and ensure data accuracy.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £31,554 – £33,270 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Barts Health NHS Trust
Senior Healthcare Support Worker - AAU
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
The Acute Care team at the Royal London Hospital are passionate about getting it right for patients and their families. To achieve this, we are looking to appoint an outstanding individual to the post of Healthcare Support Worker within the Acute Admissions Unit (AAU). We admit patients directly from A&E and ambulatory care to our 52 bedded AAU and aim to provide an exceptional standard of care whilst maintaining the flow of patients throughout the hospital.
We are looking to recruit staff who have experience of delivering care in an acute setting.
You will have excellent communication skills, be caring and compassionate at all times and thrive in a very busy environment.
As a healthcare assistant your role will be to help the qualified nurses assess, plan deliver and evaluate high standards of care to patients.
The applicant needs to demonstrate and establish good clinical skills and show that they could work independently without direct supervision.
We are looking for candidates for a full time post, the shift pattern is a mixture of days and nights over weekdays and weekends.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Healthcare Support Worker will be an integral part of the ward/department team actively taking part in meeting the needs of patients and of
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